The CI Evaluation Begins...

Good luck, Phi4Sius and I hope everything goes great!
 
SkullChick wrote: People, are you for real? I lost 50 plus decibels overnight when I was 17, if I knew back then and they offer steroid I'd declined it because, tell me is there any case that you know personally (not news article, more like blog, friend, etc) which steroid miraclously restored the recent loss to where it was before?
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I am a case where steroids worked. In April of 2004 I lost all of my hearing due to an accident that resulted in me banging my head. I was completely deaf for a whole week (a week I'll never forget). I was prescribed steroids and my hearing returned to where it was (albeit not normal like it was - probably 5 dB less than it normally was - from 45 dB down to 50 dB) but it was like normal.

Lucia- Same here! Looking forward to Saturday and seeing what they say at the Cochlear Implant clinic after Saturday's appointment with the CT scan. I'll keep everyone updated as this thing progresses!! :)
 
Phi4Sius, Congratulation on your CI journey! Best luck for you! :) I got my CI surgery last Friday.
 
Phi,

Thank you for clarifying. In that case, I can understand where you would end up losing hearing. I never realized how loud movie theaters play their movies until after I received my CIs. In fact, they were SO loud that I had to turn down my CIs several notches. :(
 
Ph4Sius,

Good Luck with your CI Journey, Keep us posted. I am looking forward to the Harry Potter Movie too! I saw the last last Harry Potter Movie just days before I received my CI. I could understand very little of the dialogue, except things like Ron yelling "HARRY!"
With my CII can now understand so much more dialogue. If I had not gotten the CI there is no way I would be paying over $10 to see a movie.
 
Thank you everyone.

I'm planning on keeping this thread as the journal for my CI evaluation process.

OMG. Less than 10 hours to go for my CT Scan!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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WOOOO! I actually kinda enjoyed the CT scan back in March lol. I thought it was fun and exciting! But I am a nerd ha. :)
 
WHY do they say "We're going to do your CT Scan on Saturday" when I'm NOT getting an ACTUAL CT Scan?! *sigh*

But, the good news: I'm being referred to a CI Clinic over in LA.


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SkullChick said:
People, are you for real? I lost 50 plus decibels overnight when I was 17, if I knew back then and they offer steroid I'd declined it because, tell me is there any case that you know personally (not news article, more like blog, friend, etc) which steroid miraclously restored the recent loss to where it was before?
So you lost 20 db phi, big deal, it happens. sorry deafdude he's not your superstar now wah wah
How is this possible, having severe/profound loss and that hearing aid is "too powerful"? I think that's bull, and drop in hearing from movie? No way you need to have constant loud exposure above 90 db for long time with normal hearing (20 db) to have noticeably drop in hearing. I think you just have progressive hearing loss like majority of us does. I had 50 db all across board for first 17 years of my life it was so steady and stable not any slight change in audiogram until one fateful day I went to bed taking hearing aid off remembering I hear fine and same as usual, waking up not able to hear my own scream with hearing aid on. It can be unexpected progressive loss. AliciaM had normal hearing until some while ago (age 17?) and its dropping quickly. Anything can happen.
Jason (my fiance) have normal hearing since birth in left ear until spring he lost his hearing to mild/moderate and other ear (right) was moderate (30-40 lows, 50-60 highs across board) since his age 12 (from botched ear operation broke little bit off one of his bones in ear) and progressed to severe profound (70 lows -100 highs) at age 22 for no known reason except possibly genetic since his grandma have moderate hearing loss in both ear at age 50 (80 now) its steady not progressive like jason though who know.
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I am not sure how it can be too powerful, but my audi said the same thing to me about the one analog aid you can still get in Canada.

Best of luck to you
 
Phi4Sius said:
WHY do they say "We're going to do your CT Scan on Saturday" when I'm NOT getting an ACTUAL CT Scan?! *sigh*

But, the good news: I'm being referred to a CI Clinic over in LA.


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ok they shouldn't be playing you like that. If they say CT scan on Saturday, THEY SHOULD MEAN IT! pft, professionals.
 
@DeafLissa90 - As I said in the post, I'm being referred to a CI clinic over in LA. :)

Basically, it was a meeting with another (decent this time) ENT who made the referral.
 
Oh right, they should have told you that you wasnt having a scan
 
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